Tina Chang is an American poet, teacher, and editor. She was born in 1969 and raised in New York City. Her first book of poetry, ''Half-Lit Houses'', was published by Four Way Books in May , and was a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop. Along with poets Nathalie Handal and , she is the co-editor of ''Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond'', W. W. Norton, 2008.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals such as McSweeney's and Ploughshares and her work has been included in the anthologies: ''Poetry 30: Poets in their Thirties'', , ''Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation'', ''Asian American Literature'' , and ''Identity Lessons'' .
Chang received her master of fine art's degree in poetry from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she studied with Lucie Brock-Broido, Lucille Clifton, Alfred Corn, Mark Doty and Richard Howard. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College.
She has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artist's Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Blue Mountain Center among others. She has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation/Money for Women, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Poets & Writers and The Academy of American Poets.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Stella Dong
Stella Dong is the author of many historical books on China, most notably ''Shanghai 1842-1949: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City'' , ''Peking'' and ''Sun Yat-sen'' . Born in Seattle, she worked for several magazines before her first book. She is known for her perceptive articles on Chinese-American writers, and has a regular column on American-Asian cultural affairs in Hong Kong's ''South China Morning Post''. She has also written for the ''New York Times'' and ''Washington Post''.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Shirley Geok-lin Lim is an award-winning Malaysian-born writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of , ''Crossing The Peninsula'', published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an and for a woman. Among several other awards that she has received, her memoir, ''Among the White Moon Faces'', received the 1997 American Book Award.
Born in Melaka, Malaysia into a life of poverty, deprivation, , and abandonment in a culture that, at that time, rarely recognised girls as individuals, Lim had a pretty unhappy childhood. Reading was a huge solace, retreat, and escape for her. Scorned by teachers for her love of over her "native" tongue, she was looked down upon for her pursuit of English literature. Her first was published in the ''Malacca Times'' when she was ten. By the age of eleven, she knew that she wanted to be a poet.
Lim had her early education at Infant Jesus Convent under the then education system. She won a federal scholarship to the University of Malaya, where she earned a B.A. first class honours degree in English at University of Malaya. In 1969, at the age of twenty-four, she entered graduate school at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts under a scholarship, and received a in English and in 1973.
Lim is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has also taught internationally at the National University of Singapore, the National Institute Education of Nanyang Technological University, and was the Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong where she also taught poetry and creative writing. She has authored several books of poems, , and criticism, and serves as and co-editor of numerous scholarly works. Lim is a cross-genre writer, although she identifies herself as a poet. Her research interests include:
* 20th century American literature;
* Asian American cultural studies;
* and Southeast Asian literature;
* and writing and theory; and
* creative writing.
Lim has received numerous literary awards, among which are:
* "Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer Award" in 1996;
* American Book Award which she won twice, once with her co-edited anthology, ''The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology'' , and the second time, with her memoir, ''Among the White Moon Faces'' ; and
* Asiaweek Short Story award for "Mr. Tang's Uncles" .
An extract from "The Town Where Time Stands Still" by Shirley Geok-lin Lim has been included in the Journeys Stimulus Booklet as part of the compulsory course, studied by all students in their final year of secondary schooling in New South Wales, Australia.
* Memoir: "Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands"
* Fiction:
**" and Gold"
**''Sister Swing''
* Critical Books:
** "Nationalism and Literature: English-language Writing from the Philippines and Singapore"
** "Writing /East Asia in English"
* Books of Poetry and Short Stories:
** "Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems"
** "Another Country"
** "Life's Mysteries"
** "No Man's Grove and Other Poems"
** "Modern Secrets: New and Selected Poems"
** "Monsoon History"
** "Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories"
** "What the Didn't Say"
* Some publications edited or co-edited:
** "The Forbidden Stitch"
** "Approaches to Teaching 's The Woman Warrior"
** "One World of Literature"
** "Transnational : Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere"
** "Writing Out of Turn"
** "Before Its Time, Of Its Time: The Transnational Female Bildungsroman and Kartini's Letters of A nese Princess"
** "Asian American Literature: Leavening the Mosaic", in "Contemporary U. S. Literature: Multicultural Perspectives"
** "Power, Race, and Gender in : Strangers in the Tower?"
** "Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing"
** "English-Language Creative Writing in Hong Kong: Colonial Stereotype and Process," in Pedagogy 1
** "The Center Can Hold: U.S. Women's Studies and Global Feminism"
** "The Futures for Hong Kong English", co-authored with Kingsley Bolton
** "Transnational Americans: Asian Pacific American Literature of Anamnesia"
** "Global Asia as Post-Legitimation: A Response to Ambroise Kom's 'Knowledge and Legitimation'". Mots Pluriels.
** "Old Paradigms, New Differences: Comparative ", in Cultural Encounters
** "Complications of Feminist and Ethnic in Asian American Literature", in "Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization"
** Foreword to "Asian American s: A Bio- Critical Sourcebook"
** "The Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story". David Wong Louie.
Born in Melaka, Malaysia into a life of poverty, deprivation, , and abandonment in a culture that, at that time, rarely recognised girls as individuals, Lim had a pretty unhappy childhood. Reading was a huge solace, retreat, and escape for her. Scorned by teachers for her love of over her "native" tongue, she was looked down upon for her pursuit of English literature. Her first was published in the ''Malacca Times'' when she was ten. By the age of eleven, she knew that she wanted to be a poet.
Lim had her early education at Infant Jesus Convent under the then education system. She won a federal scholarship to the University of Malaya, where she earned a B.A. first class honours degree in English at University of Malaya. In 1969, at the age of twenty-four, she entered graduate school at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts under a scholarship, and received a in English and in 1973.
Lim is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has also taught internationally at the National University of Singapore, the National Institute Education of Nanyang Technological University, and was the Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong where she also taught poetry and creative writing. She has authored several books of poems, , and criticism, and serves as and co-editor of numerous scholarly works. Lim is a cross-genre writer, although she identifies herself as a poet. Her research interests include:
* 20th century American literature;
* Asian American cultural studies;
* and Southeast Asian literature;
* and writing and theory; and
* creative writing.
Lim has received numerous literary awards, among which are:
* "Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer Award" in 1996;
* American Book Award which she won twice, once with her co-edited anthology, ''The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology'' , and the second time, with her memoir, ''Among the White Moon Faces'' ; and
* Asiaweek Short Story award for "Mr. Tang's Uncles" .
An extract from "The Town Where Time Stands Still" by Shirley Geok-lin Lim has been included in the Journeys Stimulus Booklet as part of the compulsory course, studied by all students in their final year of secondary schooling in New South Wales, Australia.
Books and articles
* Memoir: "Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands"
* Fiction:
**" and Gold"
**''Sister Swing''
* Critical Books:
** "Nationalism and Literature: English-language Writing from the Philippines and Singapore"
** "Writing /East Asia in English"
* Books of Poetry and Short Stories:
** "Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems"
** "Another Country"
** "Life's Mysteries"
** "No Man's Grove and Other Poems"
** "Modern Secrets: New and Selected Poems"
** "Monsoon History"
** "Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories"
** "What the Didn't Say"
* Some publications edited or co-edited:
** "The Forbidden Stitch"
** "Approaches to Teaching 's The Woman Warrior"
** "One World of Literature"
** "Transnational : Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere"
** "Writing Out of Turn"
** "Before Its Time, Of Its Time: The Transnational Female Bildungsroman and Kartini's Letters of A nese Princess"
** "Asian American Literature: Leavening the Mosaic", in "Contemporary U. S. Literature: Multicultural Perspectives"
** "Power, Race, and Gender in : Strangers in the Tower?"
** "Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing"
** "English-Language Creative Writing in Hong Kong: Colonial Stereotype and Process," in Pedagogy 1
** "The Center Can Hold: U.S. Women's Studies and Global Feminism"
** "The Futures for Hong Kong English", co-authored with Kingsley Bolton
** "Transnational Americans: Asian Pacific American Literature of Anamnesia"
** "Global Asia as Post-Legitimation: A Response to Ambroise Kom's 'Knowledge and Legitimation'". Mots Pluriels.
** "Old Paradigms, New Differences: Comparative ", in Cultural Encounters
** "Complications of Feminist and Ethnic in Asian American Literature", in "Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization"
** Foreword to "Asian American s: A Bio- Critical Sourcebook"
** "The Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story". David Wong Louie.
Sheryl WuDunn
Sheryl WuDunn is a Chinese American private wealth advisor with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and for ''The New York Times''. She was previously the industry and international business editor at the Times. She formerly was journalist/anchor of ''The New York Times Page One'', a production of New York Times Television Enterprises. She also has worked in ''The New York Times'' Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, as well as for the ''Miami Herald'', Reuters, and ''The Wall Street Journal''. She is perhaps best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize with her husband for her reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn and Kristof were the first married couple ever to receive the award for journalism.
Sheryl WuDunn was anchor and principal writer for “Page One” on The Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture between Discovery Communications, Inc. and The New York Times Company. “Page One” is the network’s nightly three-minute program that gives viewers an exclusive first look at the stories headed for the next day’s front page of The New York Times.
Previously Sheryl WuDunn was a project director in Strategic Planning at The Times since September 2001. Before that she ran the effort to build the next generation of readers for the New York Times NexGen program.
She was a staff foreign correspondent for The New York Times in the Tokyo bureau where she wrote about economic, financial, political and social issues from 1995 to 1999. Ms. WuDunn joined The New York Times as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in March 1989.
A third generation Chinese American, Sheryl WuDunn grew up in New York City in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She attended Cornell University, graduating with a B.A. in European History in 1981. For three years, WuDunn worked for Bankers Trust Company as an international loan officer. After this, she earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and M.P.A. from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
WuDunn married fellow reporter Nicholas D. Kristof in 1988. After working with several prestigious publications, WuDunn joined the staff of ''The New York Times'' as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in 1989. Following their work in Beijing, Kristof and WuDunn moved to Tokyo and continued to report for ''The New York Times.'' She currently serves on the Cornell University Board of Trustees.
She was recently hired by Goldman Sachs to tout securities for them to wealthy clients.
WuDunn has co-authored with her husband, '''' and '''', two non-fiction Asian studies books which examine the cultural, social, and political situation of East Asia largely through interviews and personal experiences.
In May 2007, it was announced that WuDunn would leave the ''Times'' to co-write another book with Kristof: "Her first project will be to co-write another book — with guess who? — about women in the developing world. Sheryl and Nick already have co-authored two books about Asia, and of course she has won several major journalism awards.
The new book is tentatively titled either ''It Takes a Woman,'' or ''Lost Daughters,'' and Sheryl says, “I’m looking forward to reporting for the book, maybe even wading through a rice paddy here or there. Those on-the-ground experiences will be particularly special because they will be my last such ones. After that, I will be leaving journalism.”
Sheryl WuDunn was anchor and principal writer for “Page One” on The Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture between Discovery Communications, Inc. and The New York Times Company. “Page One” is the network’s nightly three-minute program that gives viewers an exclusive first look at the stories headed for the next day’s front page of The New York Times.
Previously Sheryl WuDunn was a project director in Strategic Planning at The Times since September 2001. Before that she ran the effort to build the next generation of readers for the New York Times NexGen program.
She was a staff foreign correspondent for The New York Times in the Tokyo bureau where she wrote about economic, financial, political and social issues from 1995 to 1999. Ms. WuDunn joined The New York Times as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in March 1989.
Biography
A third generation Chinese American, Sheryl WuDunn grew up in New York City in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She attended Cornell University, graduating with a B.A. in European History in 1981. For three years, WuDunn worked for Bankers Trust Company as an international loan officer. After this, she earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and M.P.A. from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
WuDunn married fellow reporter Nicholas D. Kristof in 1988. After working with several prestigious publications, WuDunn joined the staff of ''The New York Times'' as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in 1989. Following their work in Beijing, Kristof and WuDunn moved to Tokyo and continued to report for ''The New York Times.'' She currently serves on the Cornell University Board of Trustees.
She was recently hired by Goldman Sachs to tout securities for them to wealthy clients.
Books
WuDunn has co-authored with her husband, '''' and '''', two non-fiction Asian studies books which examine the cultural, social, and political situation of East Asia largely through interviews and personal experiences.
In May 2007, it was announced that WuDunn would leave the ''Times'' to co-write another book with Kristof: "Her first project will be to co-write another book — with guess who? — about women in the developing world. Sheryl and Nick already have co-authored two books about Asia, and of course she has won several major journalism awards.
The new book is tentatively titled either ''It Takes a Woman,'' or ''Lost Daughters,'' and Sheryl says, “I’m looking forward to reporting for the book, maybe even wading through a rice paddy here or there. Those on-the-ground experiences will be particularly special because they will be my last such ones. After that, I will be leaving journalism.”
Shawn Wong
Shawn Hsu Wong is an author and English Professor and former Director of the Honors Program at the University of Washington. He is Chinese American and a pioneer of Asian American studies. Wong received his undergraduate degree in English at the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's degree in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University .
Wong's first novel, "Homebase," published by Reed and Cannon , won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the 15th Annual Governor's Writers Day Award of Washington. He second novel, "American Knees," first published by Simon & Schuster in 1996, was adapted into an independent feature film entitled ''Americanese'' , written and directed by Eric Byler and produced by Lisa Onodera. The book was also re-issued by University of Washington Press in 2005.
Wong is also co-editor of six multicultural literary anthologies including the pioneering anthology, ''Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers'' , ''Literary Mosaic: Asian American and Asian Diasporas, Cultures, Identities, Representations,'' and ''The Big Aiiieeeee!.'' He is co-editor of ''Before Columbus Foundation Fiction/Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990'' – two volumes of contemporary American multicultural poetry and fiction.
Wong has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Italy. He was featured in the 1997 PBS documentary, ''Shattering the Silences'' and in the Bill Moyers' PBS documentary, ''Becoming American: The Chinese Experience'', in 2003. He is also featured in the 2005 documentary, ''What's Wrong With Frank Chin?''.
Wong also serves as consulting and contributing editor for ''Transtexts-Transcultures: A Journal of Global Cultural Studies'', http://www.transtexts.net
*''American Knees'' — A novel, Simon & Schuster, 1995; Scribner paperback, 1996; re-issued by University of Washington Press, 2005
*'''' — A novel, Reed & Cannon, 1979; re-issued by Plume/NAL, 1990
*''The Literary Mosaic: An Anthology of Asian American Literature'' — Harper Collins, 1995
*''The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990'' — with Ishmael Reed and Kathryn Trueblood, W.W. Norton Co., 1992
*''The Big Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature'' — with Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, and Lawson Fusao Inada, Meridian/NAL, 1991
*''Wooden Fish Songs'', 1983
*''Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers'' — Howard University Press, 1974; most recent re-issue by Meridian, 1997
Writings
Wong's first novel, "Homebase," published by Reed and Cannon , won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the 15th Annual Governor's Writers Day Award of Washington. He second novel, "American Knees," first published by Simon & Schuster in 1996, was adapted into an independent feature film entitled ''Americanese'' , written and directed by Eric Byler and produced by Lisa Onodera. The book was also re-issued by University of Washington Press in 2005.
Wong is also co-editor of six multicultural literary anthologies including the pioneering anthology, ''Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers'' , ''Literary Mosaic: Asian American and Asian Diasporas, Cultures, Identities, Representations,'' and ''The Big Aiiieeeee!.'' He is co-editor of ''Before Columbus Foundation Fiction/Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990'' – two volumes of contemporary American multicultural poetry and fiction.
Wong has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Italy. He was featured in the 1997 PBS documentary, ''Shattering the Silences'' and in the Bill Moyers' PBS documentary, ''Becoming American: The Chinese Experience'', in 2003. He is also featured in the 2005 documentary, ''What's Wrong With Frank Chin?''.
Wong also serves as consulting and contributing editor for ''Transtexts-Transcultures: A Journal of Global Cultural Studies'', http://www.transtexts.net
Bibliography
Author
*''American Knees'' — A novel, Simon & Schuster, 1995; Scribner paperback, 1996; re-issued by University of Washington Press, 2005
*'''' — A novel, Reed & Cannon, 1979; re-issued by Plume/NAL, 1990
Editor
*''The Literary Mosaic: An Anthology of Asian American Literature'' — Harper Collins, 1995
*''The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990'' — with Ishmael Reed and Kathryn Trueblood, W.W. Norton Co., 1992
*''The Big Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature'' — with Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, and Lawson Fusao Inada, Meridian/NAL, 1991
*''Wooden Fish Songs'', 1983
*''Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers'' — Howard University Press, 1974; most recent re-issue by Meridian, 1997
Sam Chu Lin
Sam Chu Lin was an journalist. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, Lin died, at the age of 67, in Burbank, California on March 5, 2006. In the 1960s, he was one of the first Asian Americans to appear on both radio and television, eventually working for all four major broadcast networks. Lin's career in broadcasting began in his hometown and later led him to , New York City, , and finally . It was with CBS News in New York that he first reached a national audience.
During his lifetime, Lin won several awards for his reporting and community service, and produced stories on the history of Asians in the U.S. for and NBC. Lin's last broadcast news position before he died was as a freelancer for KTTV , a position he held since 1995. He was also a frequent contributor to such Asian American publications as ''AsianWeek'' and ''Rafu Shimpo'', as well as the ''San Francisco Examiner''. His last published article is a feature story on efforts to preserve Phoenix's Sun Mercantile Building, dated March 3, 2006. Lin is survived by his wife, Judy, and two sons, Mark and Christopher.
During his lifetime, Lin won several awards for his reporting and community service, and produced stories on the history of Asians in the U.S. for and NBC. Lin's last broadcast news position before he died was as a freelancer for KTTV , a position he held since 1995. He was also a frequent contributor to such Asian American publications as ''AsianWeek'' and ''Rafu Shimpo'', as well as the ''San Francisco Examiner''. His last published article is a feature story on efforts to preserve Phoenix's Sun Mercantile Building, dated March 3, 2006. Lin is survived by his wife, Judy, and two sons, Mark and Christopher.
Raymond K. Wong
Raymond Kin Wong is an American actor and writer.
He is the author of the award-winning novel, ''The Pacific Between''. He was also named as one of ''Pittsburgh Magazine'''s 25 Most Beautiful People in 2007.
Raymond K. Wong began his career as an Information Technology Consultant. He later became a Screen Actors Guild actor and has worked with Peter Falk, Julianne Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rob Marshall and Peter Yates in features and TV shows such as '''' and ''Sex and the City''.
As a writer, he is the author of the novel, ''The Pacific Between'', which won a 2006 IPPY Book Award . Other publications include the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', the ''Writers Post Journal'', the ''Deepening'', ''Stories of Strength'', and his movie column has appeared in ''Actors Ink'', Talk Entertainment, Cleveland.com, Boston.com, and Cincinnati.com.
Ray, a Chinese American, was born as Raymond Kin Wong. He grew up and lived in Hong Kong until the age of 18 and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with honor. Later, he studied Creative Writing at UCLA. He became interested in acting and writing in college.
In 1997, Ray became a US citizen.
* ''The Pacific Between'' - Novel
* ''Better Safe Than Sorry'' - Short Story
* ''The Watch'' - Essay
* ''The Coins'' - Short Story
* ''Stories of Strength'' - Essay
* ''Ray's Rave Reviews'' - Movie Reviews
* ''I, the Author'' - Writer's Blog
* IPPY Independent Publishers Book Award - 2006
* '''' - Henry
* ''The Pirates of Penzance'' - Featured pirate
* ''Triumph of Love'' - Dimas
* ''The King and I'' - Lun Tha
* '''' - Deng
* ''Sex and the City'' - Featured
* ''What She Doesn't Know'' - Featured
He is the author of the award-winning novel, ''The Pacific Between''. He was also named as one of ''Pittsburgh Magazine'''s 25 Most Beautiful People in 2007.
Career
Raymond K. Wong began his career as an Information Technology Consultant. He later became a Screen Actors Guild actor and has worked with Peter Falk, Julianne Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rob Marshall and Peter Yates in features and TV shows such as '''' and ''Sex and the City''.
As a writer, he is the author of the novel, ''The Pacific Between'', which won a 2006 IPPY Book Award . Other publications include the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', the ''Writers Post Journal'', the ''Deepening'', ''Stories of Strength'', and his movie column has appeared in ''Actors Ink'', Talk Entertainment, Cleveland.com, Boston.com, and Cincinnati.com.
Personal life
Ray, a Chinese American, was born as Raymond Kin Wong. He grew up and lived in Hong Kong until the age of 18 and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with honor. Later, he studied Creative Writing at UCLA. He became interested in acting and writing in college.
In 1997, Ray became a US citizen.
Publications
* ''The Pacific Between'' - Novel
* ''Better Safe Than Sorry'' - Short Story
* ''The Watch'' - Essay
* ''The Coins'' - Short Story
* ''Stories of Strength'' - Essay
* ''Ray's Rave Reviews'' - Movie Reviews
* ''I, the Author'' - Writer's Blog
Awards
* IPPY Independent Publishers Book Award - 2006
Stage
* '''' - Henry
* ''The Pirates of Penzance'' - Featured pirate
* ''Triumph of Love'' - Dimas
* ''The King and I'' - Lun Tha
Filmography
* '''' - Deng
* ''Sex and the City'' - Featured
* ''What She Doesn't Know'' - Featured
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